Today, March 4th is the birthday of Antonio Vivaldi. He was born in 1678. If you read about him, you’ll see he lived a very interesting life. No matter what you think of classical music, there is no denial that Vivaldi wrote some pretty moving music. Probably the most well known of his music is The Four Seasons. You should click on the link and give a listen to some of his music. If you didn’t like classical music before, you will now.

As a side note, Michael Aisner posted this on facebook a couple days ago. I couldn’t agree more-I love that so much of nature is indistinguishable from magic. And I love magic. But I NEVER want to know how magic is done and always want to know the tricks of nature.

We were drinking a fair amount of wine during the KU game. I decided to get out my Campagnolo corkscrew for the occasion. Someone told me that Tullio Campagnolo invented this design. I have never looked that up, but he was a revolutionary designer/inventor, so it wouldn’t surprise me.

I got another blood test yesterday. It’s super cheap if you order it on the internet. I used EconoLabs this time. It is $19 for a CBC. There are other online websites that do the same thing. They send you to a LabCorp Blood Center. They are everywhere. Everywhere but Topeka that is. (I want to be totally transparent with my blood values just in case I get a call by a ProTour Team looking for a replacement player sometime during the season.)

This weekend there are a couple races down in Tulsa. A good road race on Saturday and then a circuit race on Sunday. It is supposed to be in the upper 60’s there so the weather should be nice, finally.

I was given this by some Campagnolo relative when I went to the Campy factory after the World's in 1985.

In use.

For record keeping.